The “Black-ish” star, 24, sometimes opts for all-black ensembles, however some days she likes to put on a “pop of color” and is “actually drawn” to types that could possibly be worn by anybody no matter their gender.
“I actually do prefer to mess around – I discover myself in all black loads of the time as a result of all black is extraordinarily stylish, however after I pop one thing vivid on, I do really really feel that lighter vitality,” Shahidi mentioned, talking to Harper’s Bazaar U.Okay. “So now I do usually prefer to have no less than somewhat pop of shade someplace in my appears.”
After which there are different issues that I’m actually drawn to love androgynous silhouettes, which I flip to lots,” she continued. “There’s simply one thing actually enjoyable about that, sporting one thing that’s sometimes thought-about to be a masculine silhouette. That’s why tonight’s look actually speaks my language. And away from the crimson carpet, that’s what I put on — loads of trousers and white button-downs. For my TED Speak, for instance, I needed to flip to what would make me really feel so snug, and it was very apparent that I needed to stay to that type of vibe.”
Shahidi additionally spilled that her model icon is Solange Knowles.
“I at all times level to Solange — she simply has this authenticity,” she mentioned. “She by no means lets the costume put on her and she modifies all the vitality of the house with how she exhibits up. I at all times love that — people who find themselves enjoyable and playful on the crimson carpet.”
